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Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million...
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Unemployment, according to a number of government officials and economists, has become intractable and the August jobless rate hit 9.6% as non-farm payrolls dropped 54,000. That cannot be said about...
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If preview data about employment is any indication, the US government should report a modest uptick in joblessness tomorrow. That would not be particularly surprising give the trend in weekly jobless...
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This is the Twitter-24/7 Wall St. market report for September 2, 2010. These tweets are a sign of which companies the Twitter universe is interested in. Is there there is wisdom in crowds?
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The recession, so economists say, is over. The recovery may be slow, but it is underway. Unemployment will drop slowly through the next few years and may fall under 9% in 2011. The real estate market...
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ADP data on private sector employment was disappointing and pointed to a potential weak national joblessness announcement on Friday. The information, added to consumer confidence, housing, and a...
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There is no economic recovery underway in Europe, which is not much of a surprise to anyone who has watched attempts to restart growth there. The unemployment level in the Euro zone area was 10% in...
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A new study of 350 senior corporate executives posted results which look like those of many surveys of American consumers. The recession is not over, and, in fact, will not end until sometime next...
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There were tiny signs of life in two of the world’s largest economies, anomalies in a period when the global economy may be falling into a double dip recession. Japan announced that its jobless...
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The Labor Department’s weekly jobless claims fell a sharp 31,000 to 473,000 in the last week, something which which may be a relief to many hoping that the trend can reverse. Last week’s...
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There is some silver lining to the relentless clouds of jobless news which included weekly initial unemployment filings which reached a ten month high last week of 500,000 A Bureau of Labor...
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The Labor Department is out with its latest round of weekly jobless claims. It is uglier than a hat full of toes and fingers. The new figure was 500,000 for the most recent weak, a move that is...
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Job losses at companies with fewer than 50 workers eclipsed larger companies when it comes to job cuts according to new data from the Labor Department. The information covers the last quarter of...
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Several retail analysts pointed out that Walmart’s (NYSE: WMT) earnings and those of Home Depot (NYSE: HD) were helped by rigid cost controls. This is not the first time during the earnings season,...
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Behind every American who does not have a job there are apparently many who are concerned about whether they will keep their own. Depending on whether joblessness is 9.6% or the 17% which includes...
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